Please don't turn this into an architecture dependent mess. PCBSD is i386 & AMD64 only.
On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Dirk Engling <erdge...@erdgeist.org> wrote: > On 26.05.13 01:07, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any movement there (on either side of the table). I'd > > personally be very suspicious of an all-sh(1) future -- by far the > > cleanest parts of bsdinstall are in C -- and this is especially true for > > interacting with geom. That said, since I've lost nearly all of my free > > time and ability to work on bsdinstall, I won't get in the way of anyone > > else working on things > > As discussed at BSDCan, I'd be willing to participate in the development > and at least implement setting up zpools/zfs and geli/gbde providers. I > have done similar things in sh in my ezjail tools and think I can glue > the rest together. > > Scanning through the pc-sysinstall code, I find nothing too fancy there > regarding either interaction with zfs nor geom tools. I do not think it > is necessary as a back end just for these features. > > Nathan, is there any design rationale available for the scripts, e.g. on > why you chose sh versus C and were you provided with some kind of wish > list/requirements in the first place? Any particular mail thread to scan > through beforehand? > > Regards, > > erdgeist > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
